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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Comment Moderation and Word Verification - Please Tell Me Why

I HAVE GIVEN UP CAFFEINE. Starting today.

Yeah.

My beloved Coke Zeros? Buh-bye.

I usually have (at least) 2 cans a day. Every. Single. Day. One at breakfast and one at lunch. (I despise coffee and tea.)

We'll see how it goes. I'd like to think that taking this step will help me with my weight loss because I tend to eat crap food that tastes sooooo good when I'm washing it down with a Coke Zero. Eating an apple with a Coke Zero? Not gonna happen.

I'm limiting myself to just water at first. (Go big or stay home, right?)

So admittedly, I'm a bit cranky.

And while I'm being cranky, will you allow me to have this moment to get something off my chest?

For those of you who have comment moderation and/or word verification on your blog...

WHY??????!!!!

This topic was my biggest take-away from Bloggy Boot Camp in Baltimore. As a matter of fact, my blog was a perfect example of what NOT to do, for I had both.

Is your reasoning that you don't want to get spammed?

Trust me, you won't. Hello - the SITS Girls don't use comment moderation and they receive over 400 comments a day!

The best thing I ever did was remove both from my blog. Now someone can comment and their comment shows up immediately. I receive an e-mail with the comment. Easy peasy. I'm not getting any spam. My comment totals have risen. My e-mail is not clogged with comments that need to be published.

I read a LOT of blogs. (This is my blogroll.) It gets kinda aggravating when I want to leave a comment and I:

1. Need to sign in.
2. THEN must "solve" the word verification.
3. And THEN my comment doesn't even show up! I have to WAIT for it to be "moderated."

So will you do me a favor?

Just try it. Try it for one week. Remove your word verification and/or comment moderation function. (On Blogger, you will find this on your Dashboard under "Settings" and then the "Comments" tab.)

Leave a comment with your opinion on this! (...along with your bet as to how long I can remain caffeine-free.)

There is nothing more annoying when you read tons of blogs then having people make it take twice as long as it needs to - why, oh why is there such a thing as word verification?

And don't get me started on people who have word verification pop up *after* you've hit submit, so if you don't know to scroll back to the bottom of the page you're unaware your comment didn't go through.

LOL! I didn't even know I had word verification on, so I just turned it off. As for comment moderation, I do do that, but I have a legitimate reason (loooong story). I've been toying with the idea of taking it off, but for now, am kinda chicken. Just know that if I do, it'll all be for you. ;)

And as for the caffeine-free thing? Bless you, lady, you're a stronger woman than I!

You don't like coffee or tea? How can we be friends? I guess it's ok - more for me!

I do get spam. Erection creams seem to be the "thing" lately. However, I hate word puzzles and sign ins and moderation too. I have mine set that for any post older than 5 days ago, there is moderation and I have to accept or reject it. This is because 99% of my spam is on an older post.

Congrats on losing the comment moderation! I hadn't paid attention but knew I wasn't a fan. I have neither and my comments are still nil. Must be the lack of posting...

Getting ready for my second cup of tea. I'll give you a week. The reasoning won't be because you can't take it. It'll be because you're being short with your children and they don't deserve it. Personal experience who?

I have asked several bloggers on Twitter why they do verification and/or moderation and the answer is always, verification keeps the spam away and moderation keep ppl from leaving nasty comments or being critical of the bloggers post. I don't have either on mine.

I never had commentmoderation or word verification on my blog and didn't get any spam for just over a year. Then all of a sudden I started getting it. At that point I added comment moderation on posts older than one week - those were the posts that were getting the spam for some reason. The spam lasted for about a month and I haven't had any since.

You can do it!! I stopped drinking pop (diet or otherwise), right before Superbowl. (And, I worked at a restaurant and I got free pop, all day, every day). I haven't had any pop since then, what 3 months or so?! Well, I lie, I did have a diet coke the other day, but I couldn't even drink half the can, it was that bad.

But, it will get worse before it gets better! I used the Crystal Light in my water, but I mainly did straight water.

I agree completely. I removed it from mine. I've done it a couple times where I click to submit the comment, and the page refreshes to get me to do the word verification, and I automatically close the page, thinking the comment went through.

First, I'm guessing your headache is so achingly horrific right now you don't give a rat's tail about comment moderation.Second, I wrote a post about astrology and suddenly got tons of spam comments. For awhile I did word verification to avoid it, but then realized prohibiting anonymous posts solved the issue. So yeah, why would you do word verification?

I turned off word verification because it annoys me as well. BUT...I do have comment moderation turned on ever since someone got a bug up their rear and decided to unleash their pent up aggression on ME...anonymously. It was very rattling (and undeserved, if I do say so myself). So, if you have never received a negative comment (one that calls you names, etc) or you have nerves of steel, then I say, "Congratulations!" I hope you never find out what it's like! But to those who like to medoerate, I say I understand.

A-f'n-men! If I want to take the time to comment, please don't make it hard on me. I like your experiment and challenge and will forward your post to those that I like to read but still have this hurdle. Good luck going cold turkey. Just keep lots of water nearby and try an apple each day.